November, 2006

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About We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog

I'm a Program Manager working on the Developer Solutions team in Developer Division at Microsoft. I work on Power Toys for Visual Studio, the MSDN Forums, and making sure that customers get answers to their questions by sending out divisional spam mail every two weeks. I love to hear from people--but use the "email me" form if you do--it doesn't get caught by my spam filter.

Wow—looks like I'm going to keep going on the "lazy" theme that I've started over the past few weeks, when I blogged about the availability of my team's Power Toy Pack Installer and Resource Refactoring tools. Everyone wants to be able to write code more...

Recently, I walked past our "Shared Source" poster hanging my team's hallway, and I saw it was covered in pastel Post-It notes. Sara , our "Queen of Shared Source", had hung a Post-It note for every one of the Power Toys that our team has been involved...

Anybody who's ever been over my house knew that this was going to happen, and it wasn't going to take long. Given that I have a week here of laid-back-ness here in my hometown of Medina, Ohio, it seemed like a perfect time to graduate to joining the hoard...

If you're like me, you're lazy. You'd rather order out than cook, rather buy a robot vacuum than vacuum yourself, and you don't like clicking around when you're writing code. You know that it's a good idea to put all of the strings in your program into...

Josh just posted a bunch of questions on his blog about the Zune . I don't have all of the answers, but he should have known that I was going to jump all over his post. Here you go, boss:
About Windows Media Center Integration
Q: Can Zune Marketplace...

I guess it's the pain of using beta software, but boy, trying to figure out what CTP works with what sample application can really be a pain. I recently downloaded Beta 2 of the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (the extensions formerly known as "Atlas") to see...